"One of the things that I had in my mind growing up — I don't know how it got there — but that the world was sort of something that happened just outside your peepers, and you didn't really try to change it," he said, according to the transcript provided on Genius. "You just sort of tried to find your place in it and have the best life you could. And it would all just go on out there, and there were some pretty bright people running it."

But here's the thing.

"As you start to interact with some of these people," he continued, "you find they're not a lot different than you."

In other words, the people leading the world — in business, politics, culture — are just people.

Therefore, it's actually within the realm of possibility that you — also just a person — could change the world.

"The people actually making these decisions every day, that are sort of running the world, are not really very much different than you," Jobs said. "And they might have a little more judgment in some areas, but basically they're the same."